Holy Water I

Holy Water I

by | Jun 15, 2005 | Work

  Guidance comes to me in many ways, mostly through my body and movement.  For this class I wanted to investigate something that had been lurking at the edge of my awareness for awhile now, something still very mysterious to me – my relationship with the element of...
Holy Water II

Holy Water II

by | May 15, 2005 | Work

Thus the overflow from things pours into you. Just as a fountain’s higher basins spill down like the strands of loosened hair into the lowest vessel, so streams the fullness into you, when things and thoughts cannot contain it ~ Rilke   In her introduction to The...
Body as Temple

Body as Temple

by | May 5, 2005 | Work

 BODY AS TEMPLE: Embodiment in Solar Storms     “We are in need of integrity of being that recognizes this disregarded inner world.  I mean integrity in the true sense of the word, the sense that addresses a human wholeness and completeness, an entirety of...
John Muir: Embodied and Embedded

John Muir: Embodied and Embedded

by | Apr 30, 2005 | Work

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~  John Muir   In her introduction to The Resurgence of the Real, Charlene Spretnak asserts, “that the actual presence and power of body, nature...
Interbeing, Embodiment and Improvisation

Interbeing, Embodiment and Improvisation

by | Apr 6, 2005 | Work

Through my experience as an improvisational dancer, I have become increasingly embodied, learning to feel within myself moment to moment and watch what is arising.  I have learned to pay close attention to the interrelationship of feelings, impulses, and thoughts, as...
Peace is Every Move

Peace is Every Move

by | Apr 6, 2005 | Work

Although I hadn’t read Thich Nhat Hanh’s Peace is Every Step, I became very intrigued with the concept implied by the title.  As an improvisational movement and dance person, I have long been fascinated with how the foot contacts the earth, as well as how everyday...